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About Baykeeper

Defending San Francisco Bay for Over 25 Years

For more than 25 years, Baykeeper has worked to stop pollution in San Francisco Bay. Our vision for the next 25 years is a San Francisco Bay where the water is clean, the ecosystem is healthy, recreation is safe, and wildlife can thrive.

That's why Baykeeper exists. For more than 25 years, we have been the Bay’s most effective advocate and its strongest defender. Using water quality monitoring, science, and on-the-water patrols, Baykeeper identifies the greatest threats to the health of the Bay’s ecosystem. Then we strategically use advocacy, public education, and legal action to secure smart solutions that stop pollution and restore water quality.

We have a staff of eleven with scientific and legal expertise, a board of directors with a breadth of experience with the Bay, an expert advisory board, eight volunteer boat skippers, and the only pollution patrol boat monitoring and investigating pollution in the Bay.

Our small organization has a big impact on the Bay’s health. Since 1989, Baykeeper has:

compelled cleanup of hundreds of refineries, chemical companies, landfills, and city streets;

kept hundreds of millions of gallons of untreated sewage out of the Bay and local neighborhoods;

San Francisco Baykeeper is one of 200 Waterkeeper organizations working for clean water around the world. We are a founding member of the international Waterkeeper Alliance and were the first Waterkeeper on the West Coast. Baykeeper also works with 12 Waterkeepers across California and the California Coastkeeper Alliance.

With your help, we will continue to press forward to ensure that San Francisco Bay is protected—now and for future generations.